Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the nose to do: seeing and remembering new things. Painter Robert Sivard, 40, has a blockful of Paris shops and people firmly on canvas as well as in memory; his pictures, which went on view this week at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery, are the sort any armchair tourist can enjoy...
...setting for Faust's gloomy study is in place. Books are piled on the desk and a large armchair has been carefully placed so that it screens an open trapdoor from the view of the audience...
...Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle...
Perched on an ornate armchair in his office last week, Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of oil-rich Venezuela, received with protocolary propriety Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., commander of NATO's Atlantic Fleet. The next day, with solemn ceremony, President Pérez Jiménez opened the 1955 session of his obedient Congress...
...white man whose love of Africa is different from Camara Laye's, but probably no less intense. He came there as one of the earliest professional white hunters and his TALES OF THE AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed of by Cecil Rhodes...